seconder
English
Noun
seconder (plural seconders)
- (in combination) Something that lasts or takes a specified number of seconds.
- 2003, Constance Rhodes, Life Inside the “Thin” Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter, Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 149:
- I'm a post-first-weight-gain-in-ten-years, post-obsessing-about-food-every-minute-of-every-day, and life is different. It really is. I still struggle sometimes, but I can honestly say that the tapes are no longer playing. Once in a while I hear a little “commercial,” a brief ten-seconder: Are you sure you don't want to lose a little weight? Wouldn't you rather skip that high-fat meal?
- The person who makes a second to a motion in any formal procedure, such as a parliamentary procedure.
- He's been the seconder on many motions, but I don't think he's ever made a motion himself.
- (scouting) A Cub Scout serving as a second-in-command to a sixer.
- Synonym: second
- (climbing) A person who seconds; a person who climbs after the leader
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sə.ɡɔ̃.de/
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Verb
seconder
- (transitive) to assist
- Elle surveillait d'un œil profondément attentif le travail sanglant du bistouri, sa main adroite (...) employant tour à tour, pour seconder l'opérateur, les éponges, les fils (...) les crochets. (Feuillet, Morte, 1886)
- to help, ease
- Le principe protestant seconda d'abord l'essor scientifique et le développement industriel, en stimulant les efforts personnels et brisant des règles oppressives. (Comte, Catéchisme positiviste, 1852)
Conjugation
Conjugation of seconder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | seconder | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | secondant /sə.ɡɔ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | secondé /sə.ɡɔ̃.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | seconde /sə.ɡɔ̃d/ |
secondes /sə.ɡɔ̃d/ |
seconde /sə.ɡɔ̃d/ |
secondons /sə.ɡɔ̃.dɔ̃/ |
secondez /sə.ɡɔ̃.de/ |
secondent /sə.ɡɔ̃d/ |
| imperfect | secondais /sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛ/ |
secondais /sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛ/ |
secondait /sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛ/ |
secondions /sə.ɡɔ̃.djɔ̃/ |
secondiez /sə.ɡɔ̃.dje/ |
secondaient /sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | secondai /sə.ɡɔ̃.de/ |
secondas /sə.ɡɔ̃.da/ |
seconda /sə.ɡɔ̃.da/ |
secondâmes /sə.ɡɔ̃.dam/ |
secondâtes /sə.ɡɔ̃.dat/ |
secondèrent /sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | seconderai /sə.ɡɔ̃.dʁe/ |
seconderas /sə.ɡɔ̃.dʁa/ |
secondera /sə.ɡɔ̃.dʁa/ |
seconderons /sə.ɡɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
seconderez /sə.ɡɔ̃.dʁe/ |
seconderont /sə.ɡɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | seconderais /sə.ɡɔ̃.dʁɛ/ |
seconderais /sə.ɡɔ̃.dʁɛ/ |
seconderait /sə.ɡɔ̃.dʁɛ/ |
seconderions /sə.ɡɔ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
seconderiez /sə.ɡɔ̃.də.ʁje/ |
seconderaient /sə.ɡɔ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | seconde /sə.ɡɔ̃d/ |
secondes /sə.ɡɔ̃d/ |
seconde /sə.ɡɔ̃d/ |
secondions /sə.ɡɔ̃.djɔ̃/ |
secondiez /sə.ɡɔ̃.dje/ |
secondent /sə.ɡɔ̃d/ |
| imperfect2 | secondasse /sə.ɡɔ̃.das/ |
secondasses /sə.ɡɔ̃.das/ |
secondât /sə.ɡɔ̃.da/ |
secondassions /sə.ɡɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃/ |
secondassiez /sə.ɡɔ̃.da.sje/ |
secondassent /sə.ɡɔ̃.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | seconde /sə.ɡɔ̃d/ |
— | secondons /sə.ɡɔ̃.dɔ̃/ |
secondez /sə.ɡɔ̃.de/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “seconder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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